Between our Baltimore and Washington, DC, venues, more than 17,500 animals representing 900 species call the National Aquarium home. There are constant changes, additions, and more going on behind the scenes that our guests may not notice during their visit. We want to share these fun updates with our community so we’re bringing them to you in our weekly Animal Update posts!

Check our blog every Friday to find out what’s going on… here’s what’s new this week!

Baby Froglets!

We’ve seen a few tricolor poison dart froglets hopping around in our Hidden Life Gallery.

Can you spot the froglet?

The tricolor, or phantasmal, poison dart frog (Epipedobates tricolor) is a small red or brown poison dart frog with blue stripes that is found in the rain forests of the Andean slopes of Ecuador.

Baby tricolor poison dart frog

We haven’t confirmed how many babies there are just yet but we’ll keep you updated! Stop by to see the young froglets in the Hidden Life exhibit, closest to the rotating door headed toward our Atlantic Coral Reef exhibit!

Seastars and ratfish return to DC

One spotted ratfish and four leather sea stars were added back to our Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries exhibit this week.

Spotted Ratfish

This exhibits was upgraded over the summer and is now fitted with an acrylic window, there should be no more condensation during warm weather!